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Alexander Wheeler

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 0.17% of 12,294 all-time · competing since May 2014 · 2014WHEE01

Alexander Wheeler has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 18 moves, set at Evanston FMC Spring 2026, puts him in the top 0.17% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5th in the United States. Across 50 competitions since May 2014, he has put 2,257 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.50 in May 2014 to 8.68, a 63% improvement. Alexander has entered 50 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 0.17% of 12,294 all-time
18 moves
signature single · Evanston FMC Spring 2026
2,257
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 Fewest Moves18 moves20.67
top 0.17%5 / 2,040
2×20.812.30
top 0.24%103 / 40,951
Pyraminx1.733.62
top 0.72%218 / 28,708
3×38.6810.83
top 4.1%2,316 / 59,724
Skewb2.984.78
top 4.9%762 / 18,907
4×433.3836.50
top 5.3%813 / 19,072
Clock6.316.78
top 8.4%652 / 8,927
5×51:06.121:19.63
top 9.1%714 / 9,401
Megaminx59.111:04.33
top 9.5%657 / 7,841
3×3 Multi-Blind16 of 18 cubes · 58:15—
top 9.9%70 / 731
3×3 blindfolded50.1458.37
top 10.0%195 / 2,092
3×3 one-handed16.4419.23
top 11.2%1,474 / 15,683
Square-114.4119.16
top 15.1%1,015 / 6,743
6×62:17.212:24.82
top 19.1%676 / 4,196
7×73:42.794:00.40
top 24.5%691 / 3,184
4×4 blindfolded6:28.289:50.49
top 32.9%138 / 440
5×5 blindfolded16:27.00—
early days — 3 solves102 / 218

Percentile against all competitors ever ranked in each event, a fairer measure than raw rank, because the pools differ by a factor of ten.

The line so far

Remember The Alamo 2014: 23.50Keep Austin Weird 2014: 16.55SMA Winter 2015: 16.59Texas Out of School 2019: 13.82North Liberty 2019: 14.65OU Winter 2019: 12.49Cubing Peoria 2020: 12.95Oklahoma Fall 2023: 11.61CoMO Cubing Winter 2024: 10.11Concordia Turning Spring 2024: 10.60Going Fast in Grandview 2024: 10.62UIUC Big Cubes Spring 2024: 12.04Kansas Championship 2024: 10.54Council Bluffs Cubing Buff 2024: 10.87Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 11.12CubingUSA Southern Championship 2024: 10.98Missouri Championship 2024: 11.21CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2024: 10.48Indiana Championship 2024: 8.89Concordia Turning Fall 2024: 11.22Nebraska Championship 2025: 9.59UIUC Side Events Spring 2025: 9.10Cubing in Cave Springs Arkansas 2025: 9.54Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 11.11Missouri Championship 2025: 9.85CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2025: 9.85NxNebraska 2025: 9.33Concordia Turning Winter 2026: 9.44Arkansas Championship 2026: 8.68COMO Cube-Off 2026: 10.39Oklahoma Championship 2026: 9.97Only Cubes in ABQ 2026: 9.46Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 11.42Missouri Championship 2026: 9.354x4 Off US-40 IL 2026: 10.608.6823.5017 May 201429 Aug 2026

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

Competitions

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · top X% compares against everyone ever ranked in that event, which is fairer than raw rank because event pools differ tenfold.

The circuit

The people whose scorecards keep turning up next to his.

Next targets

  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.73 away.

Targets move as he improves.